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The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...
The Art of the Underground: 150 Years of Re-designing London The London Underground today is one of the world’s largest...
‘This ain’t the shop for justice’: Crime in Dickens’s London From his childhood acquaintance with London, when he feared he...
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The Lost Hospitals of London: St Luke’s The extraordinary story of this neglected quarter of London that...
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